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A Poem is a Naked Person

Posted:Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:31:33 +0000

The re-release of Les Blank’s “lost” 1974 documentary about musician Leon Russell really blew me away, so a wrote a piece about the film for Talkhouse. Here’s an excerpt:

While I watched “A Poem…,” I kept thinking, what the hell has happened to documentary filmmaking in the past forty years? It seems we’ve become obsessed with cleanliness, with clarity, with imposing a controlled narrative structure on our films. And while there are artists today who are experimenting with documentary form, we should all be inspired by the freedom, exuberance and sheer weirdness that this film embodies. It is an experiential documentary. It doesn’t have a “message,” but the experience of seeing it (especially in a theater) is going to change you. Isn’t that enough?

Read the full piece here. The film is currently in limited release in theaters across the US, catch it if you can on the big screen. Criterion is doing a home video release later this year as well.

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NYC & London Events

Posted:Thu, 21 May 2015 15:08:32 +0000

Please join us for upcoming events in New York City and London!

Urbanized Screening & Discussion
May 26 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Location 05, 509 West 34th St., New York, 10001 United States+ Google Map
A screening of Urbanized as part of BASF’s Creator Space tour in New York City. Director Gary Hustwit will introduce the film and participate in a post-film discussion. Admission is free, but space is limited, register now. The New York City Creator Space tour will discuss ideas around Habitat, Citizenship and Resilience as three of the major challenges for a sustainable urban neighborhood development.

Trilogy Book Event in London
June 9 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Vitsoe, 3-5 Duke Street, London, London W1U 3ED United Kingdom+ Google Map
Please join Gary Hustwit and Versions Publishing for a drinks reception at Vitsoe London to celebrate the release of the new book Helvetica/Objectified/Urbanized: The Complete Interviews. Filmmaker Gary Hustwit will be on hand to answer questions and sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase. Please stop by for drinks and celebrate the book’s release with us. Admission is free but space is limited, RSVP here.

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Turku Design Festival

Posted:Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:19:36 +0000

Attention Fins: there are upcoming screenings of Helvetica and Urbanized as part of the Turku Design Festival and Scene!

May 8, 2015
Turku Design Festival, Turku, Finland
6:30pm Helvetica
8:00pm Urbanized

See the event details on Facebook.

www.turkudesignfestival.fi
www.sceneturku.fi

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NYC Book Event

Posted:Tue, 17 Mar 2015 05:19:27 +0000

Please join Gary Hustwit and Design Trilogy film stars Paula Scher, Karim Rashid, Davin Stowell, Noah Chasin, and Tobias Frere-Jones for a conversation and book release event at Strand Books in NYC.

Wednesday, March 25, 7:00PM – 8:00PM
Strand Books
Rare Book Room
828 Broadway (at 12th St.)
New York NY

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eBook and Kindle Out Now

Posted:Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:32:17 +0000

We’re pleased to announce that the ePub and Kindle versions of Helvetica / Objectified / Urbanized: The Complete Interviews are now available from Versions Publishing. For those of you who don’t want to lug around 2 1/2 pounds of paper, or if you want to search the text of the book, this is for you!

You can purchase the eBook from Versions’ website, from iTunes, or at Amazon.com.

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The Book is Finished!

Posted:Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:32:36 +0000

Greetings friends! I can finally say those four little words I’ve wanted to say for the past year: the book is done! The Design Trilogy complete interviews book is a reality. I am blown away by how well it turned out, and how heavy it is: two and a half pounds! We just got the first copy overnighted to us, I’ve included a few photos below. Our friends at Build added some really nice touches to the design, like the neon yellow endpapers and a bonus gift of a custom bookmark. Beautiful.

The books are en route to us from the printer now and they’ll arrive late this week. Order your copy here. Huge thanks again to all of you for helping to make this possible, to Michael C. Place and Joe Luxton at Build for the design work, to Prolific Printing for the excellent print job, and to Katie Herman for all the editing help.

Cheers!

Gary

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The Printing is Done!

Posted:Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:21:36 +0000

Greetings friends, just a quick update that the Design Trilogy Interviews book has been printed and is now being bound. Our printer sent along a few phone pix of the process. That’s a lot of paper!

So now the binding happens, and the finished books will be on a truck to us from the printer next week. If you’ve pre-ordered the book, we’ll be emailing you once it ships. The ebook is coming along nicely as well, and it’ll be released at the same time we’re shipping the paper books.

Thanks again everyone, I’m excited that it’s almost here. Cheers!

– Gary

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Interviews Book Update

Posted:Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:44:23 +0000

Hello friends, hope you’re all well.

So we were hoping to go to press with the book earlier this month, but we’re still putting the finishing touches on it. One issue is the length of the book: it’s gotten longer… much longer. I’d originally estimated it would be approximately 400 to 500 pages long. Well, it’s actually going to be closer to 700 pages! We’ve experimented with font size and other ways to be more economical with page space, but there’s no getting around the fact that there’s a tremendous amount of information in it. And while we’ve made some edits to the interview text for readability and to eliminate redundancy, the whole point of this book was to give you the full interviews, so we won’t be cutting them down more just to lessen the page count.

We’re planning to go to press next week, but given the holiday schedule it’s doubtful we’ll have finished books back before the end of the year. So January it is. I’ll give you another update when it’s on press.

Thanks again for your support on this project. And for those of you in the States, have a happy Thanksgiving weekend.

Cheers,
Gary

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Alejandro Aravena TED Talk

Posted:Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:29:47 +0000

Urbanized star Alejandro Aravena of Elemental has a new TED Talk up, in which he discusses his continued activities in social housing and participatory design.

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The Design Trilogy in Seoul

Posted:Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:18:33 +0000

We’re pleased to announce a week of screenings of Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanized in Seoul, South Korea, October 1-5, at the new Dongdaemun Design Plaza designed by Zaha Hadid. It’s all part of the DDP Open Market, with lots of other events and pop-up shops.

Special screenings October 1st and 2nd, hosted by Gary Hustwit. Tickets are free, for details see the DDP Open Market site.

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